Nonlinear prediction of exchange rates with monetary fundamentals

Journal of Empirical Finance

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 623-640

  Qi, Min ^a   Wu, Yangru ^b,c  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research   (China)

Author keywords

Exchange rates forecasting; Monetary fundamentals; Neural network

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042342715     PISSN: 09275398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-5398(03)00008-2     Document Type: Article

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